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Kyivstar Awarded 3G Licence by Ukrainian Court Decision
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Ukraine's leading mobile operator by subscriber numbers, Kyivstar, has been awarded a 3G licence. Ukraine's National Communications Regulation Commission (NCRC) has been ordered to grant the licence to Kyivstar by the District Administrative Court of Kyiv, according to press reports. The court decision was made after...
Alcatel-Lucent, 3 Italia, RAI in Italian DVB-SH Mobile-TV Trials
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Alcatel-Lucent, Hutchison Whampoa's 3 Italia and Italian public broadcaster RAI have teamed up to trial mobile-TV services in Italy using the 'Digital Video Broadcasting - Satellite services to Handhelds' (DVB-SH) standard. The trial is set to commence in December 2007 and will last until March 2008. In a ...
Computer Architecture Helps First Responders
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Princeton University researchers have developed a computer architecture that promises the secure transmission of crucial rescue information to first responders during events such as natural disasters, fires or terrorist attacks. Electrical engineering professor Ruby Lee claims that the new architecture creates what she...
Tussle for Alternative Wireless Widens to "White Spaces"
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Dell, Google, Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft this week led the formation of a new group to encourage the FCC to make available the 'white spaces' between digital TV channels for use for wireless broadband services. The Wireless Innovation Alliance has launched a PR and lobbying campaign in the hopes of convincing the ...
Dutch OT2006 Taps Mitel For Next-Gen IP Apps
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Mitel, which is emerging as a force in unified-communications applications and solutions, won a six-year contract to supply 96 institutions of the Dutch government with "future-proof" IP communications solutions. The large-scale IP deployment is part of OverheidsTelecom 2006 (OT2006), a Dutch government program...
Arris Sews Up C-COR
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Arris Group Inc. closed its acquisition of C-COR Corp. late Friday afternoon, adding some scale and new technologies to its arsenal that should help it compete with larger rivals such as Cisco Systems Inc. and Motorola Inc. The deal was completed a few weeks earlier than originally expected after 98 percent of Arris...
Unstrung Insider: Decoding Open Access
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The latest Unstrung Insider report highlights 'transcoding' mobile gateways, wireless Web technology that will become crucial for U.S. carriers as they move to a so-called "open access" model in the coming years. Transcoding mobile gateways sit in the operator's network and enable a carrier to render...
Analysts Weigh Storage Market, Look Ahead to 2008
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Storage software spending is growing faster than hardware spending, a trend that's likely to continue into 2008. According to IDC, external disk storage systems revenue was up 5.1 percent year-on-year for the third quarter of 2007, while storage software revenues rose 9.8 percent. While growing faster than hardware, the...
Broadband Over Powerline a Home Networking Winner
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Broadband over Powerline (BPL) has been emerging steadily over the past several years for in-home networking, access/utility company applications, and the technology is continuing strong growth, reports In-Stat. With no new cabling needed, broadband powerline networking is emerging as a winner in the race for...
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